Narrative Codes - Music Video

SYMOBLIC:
(defining the oposing forces, e.g. good vs. evil)
Eminem is good, Stan is bad, they look similar on the outside but Eminem is a victim of obsession/stalking without even knowing it.
SEMIC:
(objects cannoting a genre or a potential narritve)
pathetic fallacy is used to cannote angry emotions, there is lightening, its dark, there is a pretty lady etc which portrays all the hero/thriller conventions.
ACTION:
(things happen in a seies of logical consequences, audience understands where narritive is going which motivates viewer to keep watching)
cliche of someone driving in the rain - often leads to death. The audience keep waiting and watching because they want to see the outcome.
CULTURAL
(audience brings own references to the code)
athe audience needs to understand who Eminem is and what he is like, in order to understand the transformation that Stan makes due to his obsession. They then too need to understand how a pregnant woman should be treated aposed to how Stan is treating her.
A reference has been made to 'The Shining" when Jack goes insane, similar behaviour as Stan when he too goes mad.
ENIGMA:
(a puzzle in the narritive which is solved after a suspended amount of time)
Enigma here is not for the audience but for the character in the video, in this case Eminem. He is puzzled as to why he heard on the news that someone drove their pregnant girlfriend off a bridge who was carrying a child. He then clicks that it is in fact Stan. Puzzle solved.